For much of 2018, a sense of anxiety seemed to be hanging over the Thorns fandom, which has, let’s be honest, been a bit spoiled over the past two years. Two home losses for the team in the first two seasons of Mark Parsons’s tenure at the Thorns were met with three home losses this season. This is a fanbase that expects silverware, yes; but more than that, it’s a fanbase that expects to suffocate teams, to dominate, to set records. There has been a team like that in the league this year, but it hasn’t been the Thorns.
After six months in the making, the Thorns are officially an elite team
